Senate panel proposes 'interim' GBI with RKV-equivalent warhead fielded by 2026

By Jason Sherman / June 24, 2020 at 2:20 PM
The Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing legislation mandating the Defense Department develop an "interim" Ground-based Interceptor capability to upgrade the current homeland ballistic missile defense fleet and field 20 of the new guided missiles in currently empty Alaska silos by the mid-2020s, a project that -- if enacted -- could siphon funds from the Missile Defense Agency's priorities. The Senate panel, in its mark of the fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill , advances a proposal for a GBI...

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